Polygamy

A Modest Proposal for the 21st Century

Marci Hamilton | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Texas FLDS Ruling, Law, Polygamy, Age of Consent, FLDS Raid, Underage Drinking and Driving, Rule of Law, Nambla, Flds, Polygamists, Politics News
Marci Hamilton

About 20% of boys, and 25% of girls, are sexually abused in the United States. If we were to ignore our age of consent laws, we could reduce those numbers dramatically. And why stop with the laws governing sex?

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What About the Rights of the Parents?

Tim Giago | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Polygamist Compound, Polygamy, Polygamist Ranch Children, Native Americans, Government and Native Americans, Child Custody, Texas Polygamists, Politics News
Tim Giago

The upstanding and righteous Christian community had to do something. The people living near them had a religion that was so different than their own ...

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Warren Jeffs Gives 12-Year-Old Girl Wedding-Style Kiss

Deborah King | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: FLDS Kiss Photo, Polygamy, Warren Jeffs Kiss, Warren Jeffs Kiss Photo, Polygamists, Warren Jeffs Evidence, Flds, Warren Jeffs, Politics News
Deborah King

This "kiss" photo could not possibly be anything other than a wedding photo. A man in FLDS can have physical contact with a female only if they are married. Period.

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Appealing to the Texas Supreme Court to Save the Children

Deborah King | Posted 05.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Texas Supreme Court, Polygamy, Sexual Abuse, Family and Protective Services, Flds, Home News
Deborah King

The Department of Family and Protective Services appealed to the Texas Supreme Court today, bluntly stating that "this case is about adult men command...

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Texas Appeals Polygamist Sect Ruling

AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 05.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Texas, Appeals, Flds, Polygamy, Polygamist Sect, Child Protective Services, Texas Supreme Court, Home News

SAN ANGELO, Texas — State child welfare authorities on Friday appealed a stinging court ruling that said their seizure of more than 440 children...

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Polygamist Sect's Children Should Not Have Been Seized By Texas, Court Rules

AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 05.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Texas Polygamists, Court Decision, Polygamist Children, Polygamy, Home News

SAN ANGELO, Texas — In a ruling that could torpedo the case against the West Texas polygamist sect, a state appeals court Thursday said authorit...

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A Modern Day Inquisition

Suzette Standring | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Polygamy, Child Abuse, Torture, Inquisition, Warren Jeffs, Flds, Politics News
Suzette Standring

Our moral compass is broken if we believe wholesale persecution of the FLDS is the safest approach to child protection. We are being duped into criminal complicity.

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The Secret Lives Of Married Men

Huffington Post | Posted 05.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Open Marriage, Video, Monogamy, Cheating Helps Marriage, The Case for Open Relationships, Polyamory, Cheating, Polygamy, Extramarital Affair, Infidelity, Cheatng Husbands, Open Relationship, Cheating Men, Living News

This week's New York magazine cover story delves into why the Spitzer scandal came as no surprise to a lot of married men. As the author explains, Wh...

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From San Angelo, TX

Deborah King | Posted 05.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Family Service Plan, Child Protective Services, Fundamentalists Latter-Day Saints, San Angelo, Flds, Polygamy, Tx, Cult, Home News
Deborah King

If a boy in FLDS shows any indication of wanting to think for himself, he is dumped outside of town by his parents and becomes a non-person, unable to contact his family.

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Warren Jeffs' FLDS Church and What I Left Behind

Elissa Wall | Posted 05.17.2008 | Living

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Elissa Wall

For eighteen years of my life I was a member of the Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I wore long pioneer style dresses, styled my hair in the FLDS up-do fashion, and I believed that Warren Jeffs was the prophet.

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The Waking Beast

Doon Baqi | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Polygamy, Obama, Volcano, Clinton, Pope, Politics News
Doon Baqi

There's an enormous quake in China killing thousands of people. This only days after a cyclone named after a flower wreaks devastation on Myanmar. We must be at world's end.

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Polyamory: The New Monogamy?

Dr. Belisa Vranich | Posted 05.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Monogamy, Polygamy, The Balanced Life, Polyamory, Sex, Open Marriage, Open Marriages, Living News
Dr. Belisa Vranich

The opposite of monogamy -- quick. Polygamy, right? Wrong. Polygamy is when one man has many wives (often with bad handmade dresses and a fierce need ...

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The Case Against Polygamy

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 04.23.2008 | Living

Read More: Polygamy, Judaism, Orthodox Judaism, Living News
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

About two months ago, my wife and I visited and entered the fundamentalist Mormon community of Colorado Sprigs, Arizona, the very base of imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs.

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Polygamist Sects: How They Avoid Inbreeding Problems

msnbc.com | Dan Childs | Posted 04.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Inbreeding Problems, Polygamists Inbreeding, Polygamy, Inbreeding Health Problems, Inbreeding, Polygamists, Texas Polygamists, Living News

To geneticists, the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) community, based in West Texas, might look a bit like...

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Leaving for San Angelo, TX in the Morning

Deborah King | Posted 04.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Sexual Abuse of Children, Polygamy, Fundamentalists Latter Day Saints, Incest, Compound, Plural Wives, San Angelo TX, Flds, Cult, Living News
Deborah King

I've got to see for myself the mothers in floor length pioneer dresses buttoned up the neck and down the wrist, their long handled underwear peaking out, their uncut hair pulled up in a pompadour.

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Polygamist Sects: A Further Lesson In Style

Huffington Post | Posted 04.17.2008 | Living

Read More: YFZ Ranch; Polygamist Style, Texas Religious Compound, Polygamy Compound Raid, Mormon Fundamentalists, Mormon Fundamentalism, Eldorado Tx, Warren Jeffs, Mormon Dress, Mormon Raid, William E. Jessop, Mormon Hairstyle, El Dorado, YFZ Raid, Bigamy, Warren Jeffs Compound, Mormon Sect Bed, Flds, Mormons Eldorado Texas, Mormon Sects, Polygamist Dress, Prairie-Style Dresses, Mormon Sect, Texas Compound, FLDS Church, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, William Jessop, Texas Polygamists, Girls Texas Compound, Polygamists, Mormon Hair, Polygamy, Warren Jeffs Mormons, Living News

The Today Show did a piece this morning on the reasoning behind Fundamentalist Mormon clothing. They invited two former Fundamentalist Saints on to th...

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Polygamist Sects: A Lesson In Style

Verena von Pfetten | Posted 04.15.2008 | Living

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Verena von Pfetten

Have you ever wondered what exactly the deal is with Fundamentalist Mormon hair and the Little House On The Prairie-esque dresses? Because I have. ...

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Bill Maher's New Rule About Catholicism "The Cult" And The Pope

Huffington Post | Posted 04.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Polygamy, Real Time With Bill Maher, Video, Bill Maher Pope, Pope Benedict XVI, Bill Maher, Media News

Bill Maher ended his latest episode of "Real Time" with a "new rule" about the pope. Pegged to the recently raided polygamist compound in Texas and th...

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Between the Sheets in Texas, and Everywhere

Deborah King | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Eldorado Texas, Polygamy, Child Abuse, Church of Latter Day Saints, Sexual Abuse, Politics News
Deborah King

It is certainly not only a splinter Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints group that forces young girls to have sex. No one is immune. No child is safe.

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Bed Found In Temple For Sex With Underage Girls Right After Marriage, Authorities Say

CNN | Posted 04.10.2008 | Home

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The Los Angeles Times Reports (password required): Authorities searching a remote polygamist compound for a 16-year-old girl who had claimed she was...

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Prosecuting Polygamy in El Dorado

Marci Hamilton | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Polygamy, Abuse, Big Love, Cult, Mormons, Mormonism, Sexual Abuse, Patriarchy, Latter Day Saints, Texas Polygamists, Warren Jeffs, Warren Jeffs Compound, Religion, Polygamy Laws, Texas Religious Compound, Child Abuse, El Dorado, Religion and Politics, Girls Texas Compound, Faith, Warren Jeffs Abuse, Texas Compound, Politics News
Marci Hamilton

There is nothing so dangerous for a child as an insular, patriarchical religious organization and the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints is one of the scariest examples.

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Church And State Revisited: The Story Of Smoot

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.10.2007 | Politics

Read More: Extermination, Scientology, Mormon, Mit, Smoot, Speech, Marijuana, Sacrament, Tariff, Peyote Way, Army Chaplain, Cannibal, Rastafarianism, Missouri, Jim Jones, American Indian Church, Muslim, Mormon War, Church of the SubGenius, Polygamist, Reed Smoot, Brigham Roberts, Peoples Temple, Chaplain, Smoots, Polygamy, Flying Spaghetti Monster, Smoot Hearings, Mitt Romney, Cult, Cannibalism, Mormonism, Congress, Native American Church, Religion, Anti-Mormon, Robert A. Heinlein, Christianity, Extermination Order, Oliver Smoot, Peyote, Utah, Christian, Nac, Rajneeshee, Koran, Smoot-Hawley, Pastafarian, Rastafarian, Aic, Subgenius, Rajneesh, Wicca, Anti-Mormonism, Wiccan, Latter Day Saints, LDS, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Much ink was spilled over Mitt Romney's speech last week about his Mormon faith. Very little attention was paid to America's dark history of anti-Mormonism.

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Big Love: Living With Two Wives

Anne M. Plant | Posted 09.15.2007 | Living

Read More: Polygamy, Big Love, Living News
Anne M. Plant

The greatest way I, the second "wife", benefit this family is by supporting the real wife and providing some relief of daily duties.

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How to Marry a Second Wife

AJ Jacobs | Posted 09.12.2007 | Living

Read More: AJ Jacobs a Year of Living Biblically, Big Love, AJ Jacobs Book, Polygamy, Bible, Living News
AJ Jacobs

I spent last year trying to live according to the rules and customs of the Bible. And I decided that if I was really going to commit, maybe I should take a shot at polygamy.

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